Ah, it's allright. Einstien was scrutinized and scoffed at too. In a seemingly boundles and endless universe, I never really thought that light was the fastest thing around. *But I guess it still is. Overactive imagination. :/

Well, the scientific community got over the "world is flat" and "earth is center of the universe" ideas. I'm sure we will survive this with less fanfare.

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A lot of theories are based on the fastest thing possible being the speed of light. This has the punch to make all those theories null and void, which is like putting a big cross through peoples LIFE long work.

Yea, it would really screw the physics world over. This is like disproving gravity.

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No not really. Because even if Light isn't the fastest thing in the universe it is still a constant. Therefore almost all mathematical equations using "c" still apply true. It's just throws a fork in the gears for anything beyond speed of light and only in relation to particles with very little to no mass.

Getting something to move FTL will still require the same energy as it always had and anything we create isn't going to have a mass even close to a neutrino. So really this only affects super sub atomic particles, in a Vacuum.

No not really. Because even if Light isn't the fastest thing in the universe it is still a constant. Therefore almost all mathematical equations using "c" still apply true. It's just throws a fork in the gears for anything beyond speed of light and only in relation to particles with very little to no mass.

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ah yea, that's true. Still, if one were to label a neutrino particle with a message, you could then (I think) send it forward in time. Crazy shit.

ah yea, that's true. Still, if one were to label a neutrino particle with a message, you could then (I think) send it forward in time. Crazy shit.

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Possible I guess, as long as the message doesn't change the mass of the neutrino. The neutrino itself has less mass than a single electron. Has no charge + or -.

Like you said. Crazy shit happens at the sub atomic level. I can barely grasp some of the concepts. Entanglement...That is crazy stuff and blows my mind. Just by observing the particle changes the behavior...

Who's to say our perception of the 4th dimension is even remotely accurate. We can only measure the 4th dimension in our 3rd dimensional minds that can only perceive the 4th dimension in a slide show.

Einstein estimated that the speed of light was equal to c in E=mc^2. It was impossible for him to prove the exact value of c, only that it is really big. It is possible that his estimate is off a little or there is another layer to the riddle that has yet to be uncovered.

Einstein estimated that the speed of light was equal to c in E=mc^2. It was impossible for him to prove the exact value of c, only that it is really big. It is possible that his estimate is off a little or there is another layer to the riddle that has yet to be uncovered.

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Yeah but we know and can measure the speed of light. He was right on. Light is nothing more than a wave. If you know the Energy and you know the Mass, speed of light is easy to figure.

Whatever happened to spooky action at a distance (quantum entanglement)?

Originally Written by Salart et alFor example, if such a privileged reference frame exists and is such that the Earth’s speed in this frame is less than 10^-3 times that of the speed of light, then the speed of the influence would have to exceed that of light by at least four orders of magnitude.

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Also, I know it violates super-symmetry but I like my tachyon beams: scanning something before you ever thought to start scanning it.

The high-accuracy time-transfer GPS receiver allows to continuously monitor tiny
movements of the Earth’s crust, such as continental drift that shows up as a smooth variation of
less than 1 cm/year, and the detection of slightly larger effects due to earthquakes. The April
2009 earthquake in the region of LNGS, in particular, produced a sudden displacement of about 7
cm, as seen in Fig. 7. All mentioned effects are within the accuracy of the baseline determination.
Tidal effects are negligible as well.

Multi-band GPS in CMR format, I know 8 places of dual band will return less than 2cm of error over 2 weeks. Add in Glonoss and you reduce that to less than 1cm, two sigma over years.

What about the speed of the earth through space, and the rotation of the earth, the speed of the galaxy? Surely they included those measurements in their allowances. Earth is hurtling not only around, but around the sun, around the galaxy, and away. What are the effects of pushing massed objects to the speed of light, are the no longer influenced by the forces that constrain all other matter, thus being able to seemingly travel faster than light?

Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another. The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.

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Neutrino oscillation is a barely studied process, people even don't know the mass of neutrino. If neutrino appears to be a WIMP then indeed it can exceed the speed of light.

Neutrino, you are a hero of freedom, I bet you ain't from this world. So where are you going?